Microsoft Pinyin IME () is the

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...

input method An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters not natively available on their input devices by using sequences of characters (or mouse o ...

implementation developed by Microsoft and Harbin Institute of Technology. It is bundled with Microsoft Windows and Chinese editions of

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. Various versions can be downloaded from Microsoft's website with some restrictions.

History

Since

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OSR2, Simplified Chinese edition of Windows automatically installed the bundled Microsoft Pinyin IME. Windows 98 came with version 1.5. The Version 2.0 was released with

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and bundled with Windows 2000.

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and

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came with Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0. Microsoft Pinyin IME 2003 was released with

Office 2003 Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11) is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003, and was later released to retail on October 21, ...

. Microsoft Pinyin IME 2003 is later included in

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. Microsoft Pinyin IME (Ver: 10.1.7600.0) is included in

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. Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2007 was released with

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. In 2008, Microsoft released a word list update for this version. Later versions of the IME came in number of different editions. Usually the Express/Select editions are smaller but feature only common functionalities and the standard word list. Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2007 is not supported by 64-bit versions of Windows.下载详细信息：微软拼音输入法2007
/ref> The most recent version available for use on 64-bit systems is Microsoft Pinyin IME 4.0, however the final version of Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2010 does feature full 64-bit support.

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* * {{Input method Han character input Pinyin IME Han pinyin input

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